Hello everybody on HIVE, and especially the Music Community. My name is Jasper and I'm writing (and singing) to you from Cape Town, South Africa.
This is my third week contributing to "Three Tunes Tuesday", started by @ablaze.
I thought it would be good to continue building my mini-set of 2 cover songs and 1 original song around a theme. This week I've chosen a more uplifting theme about living your life to the fullest, chasing dreams, and not living a life where fear inhibits you!
The first song is "Let Me Die in my Footsteps" by Bob Dylan. This is actually about not living in fear of the cold war and a bomb dropping on the USA, but I remember thinking it was an amazing song to describe the Covid Pandemic, when people were living in complete fear of the virus as well as the lockdowns destroying the economy and our livelihoods... see what you think?
The next song is an absolute beauty by John Mayer called "Walt Grace's Submarine Test, January 1967" about a man who was called crazy by his wife and friends for dreaming about building his own submarine and exploring the oceans, only to succeed despite them. Here is the lyric video:
Finally, my original song for the week is called "Factory Town". I did write it with a real factory town in mind, Secunda, because that was where I worked my first job as a junior process engineer. I decided to abandon that career in order to live somewhere far more beautiful and have a much more balanced and adventurous life instead. Because of that, I now think of Factory Town as my song to remind me not to crave safety in my life out of fear (as is my habit if I'm honest) and to rather live life to the fullest! I hope you enjoy it. Please find the lyrics below:
Factory Town
All my life, I've been waiting
For the day, that I turn eighteen
'Coz all my life, I've been held down
Growing up, in this Factory Town
No no no, Mother and Father, let me go
There is a whole world, I need to know
Mother and Father, don't drag me down
Life is just too short, for Factory Town...
All my friends, I've seen them come and go
Freedom is a word they'll never know
All the girls are factory secretaries...
And all the boys are factory employees
Oh no please, MoMother and Father, let me go
There is a whole world, I need to know
Mother and Father, don't drag me down
Life is just too short, for Factory Town...
This town won't drag me down, no I don't need no factory town
This town won't drag me down, no I don't need no factory town
This town won't drag me down, no I don't need no factory town
Shit town won't drag me down, no I don't need no factory town
Thanks for listening! Have a great week and see you again next Tuesday!
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